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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Quiet Please, Quiet Please, hm.
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H M.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please.
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It is written and directed by Willis Cooper and the
teachers Ernest Schackle.
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Quiet Please for Today is called If.
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I Should Wait Before I Die.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I am a practical man. I want you to understand
that I am.
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Practical, utterly practical, and I believe nothing that cannot be
proved beyond the shadows the doubts. I know that men
live because the lives, there's many of them, and kinge
on me, who also lives. I believe that they die
because I've seen them die. Non that there is nothing
that life or death it can be proved to my satisfaction.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Speculation does not interest me. Whether men die I do not.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Guys are small concerns of me. My abiding interest is knowledge,
pure knowledge. I have to goot the most of my
forty seven years to its purcise. The application of the
knowledge I gain is a small moment to me, and
they say that it is no moment, whatever the experiment.
The deduction and proof of new natural laws is the
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be all and the end. Dollars I believe about put
it and their application is not my promise.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
John's not share my opinion.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Don's interest is in the applications of the laws that
I and others are discovered and proved you don't scare doctors,
and whether a million let women die as the results
of these applications of your discovery.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
There's a matter of no interest.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Whatever to me.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
That do want to really mean? I mean, it's imprisiously.
You know what the world is doing. You're discovering.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Obviously I know something of what they're doing. I assure
you it does not interest me.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It doesn't interest you.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
That three men are sacling mysteries in a satellite rocket
as a results of your owner station.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I am interested only in the data.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
They may bring back from outer state, data on which
I am a bass further research.
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It doesn't interest you that those data may become the
basis for the building of fortresses out there in space,
from which it is to be bombodied by some of
the new weapons that have derived from your studies.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I don't invent the weapons other men using your technical
data as circumstance.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
It doesn't interest you that those three men may never
come back to it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
They may be taking a horrible.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Death out there, seven hundred miles away from its alone.
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Out there.
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I have no time to contemplate their trouble. Thof you
sent the man I did not.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It wouldn't be there if it hadn't been for your
formulas and your work. I tell you again that is
there and they're not mine.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You know who they are, Diamond drug busy way to
preach you back to your office.
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Must we finish my work? Ernest makes me, Dan seem
lays always.
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And your brother, my brother, his sid brother Edwards. You
had me, That's why Reru please well you listen to
me as the other one fleet, I answer, yes, oh
this is time.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
When be sure? Yes you can No, I don't think
I'll tell them, Yeah Docta Anderson. Well that was Major
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Hilton over at the center.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
They had another message from mean satellite rocket at fourteen
fifty times, from.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Your brother Edwards. What did you say from seven hundred
miles out.
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In space, from a rocket that's been fifteen years for
three months now alone.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Out there with the cool boy, such a little hope
of ever coming back to warmth and light of friends
from the dog and the coole. What are you talking about?
Your brother Edwards death somewhere out there in space. He's dead?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Do you hear me.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Spentral message. He died before he finishes.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Tell my brother, he said, tell my brother if I
should wait before I die, And he died before anything.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Do you know what that means? Do you hear me?
Your brother? Have me that home book there with you? No,
the one with the brown covers the thanks. Knowledge is all.
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The application of the knowledge is unimportant unless it leads
to further knowledge. I have no theories of life or death,
or creation, explanation.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Of the attempted exponent and the future, and none of that.
There are no secrets of life. That's there's chemical process
secure you the man. They exists, and that's all.
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Perhaps some day fire one of my colleagues who discover
the principles of this living and dying. But there's a long,
long apprenticeship ahead of us, so we can turn of
that space as science.
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In the meantime, there are problems to be answers to
be true. And this is no importance but temporary use
dismitted the.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Results of our Richard, this space strucket would have been useful,
nor doubt it cutting the effects of cosmic radiation.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
But it's gone. They must dismiss it as an expedient
of sails salage.
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Knowledge is the goal.
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All else is unimportant.
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Never forget that it's worth any pride.
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Doesn't it depend just a little Doctor Anderson's on who
pays the christ But the ones who die in the streets,
there's an important one.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Price is reasonable. Who is to decide which the unimportant ones?
I am important?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Ye, your sands to the world.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
The others are important for the world too. There wouldn't
be any world.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Without the doctor Well in that standing, who like your brother,
he was dispensable.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
To science you personally, are you implying that I didn't
love my brother, Emma? I did? I want.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Now these don't try to involve me in an emotional
experience I have worked. It might do you some blud
Doctor Anderson, as you did get involved in an emotional experience.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
It might wake you up.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I don't wait back that.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I explain what you mean by that. No, I don't
think I will, and I don't know what you mean.
You know what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I do use all that. The application of your research
and experiment is producing the most frightful weapons the world
has ever seen. That's not my fault, that's application again.
But they wouldn't exist without what you know, what you've
proved in that case, fire wily helping my country. That's
what the others say. What of it?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
The other is scientists in other countries, they're helping the
country too. Well, that's privilege.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
You realize that you and the others that is still.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
In destruction for the whole world, doesn't That's the fault
of you young military men who were converting your research
in the weapons for war.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I trant, but you are the ones that gave a
Steppers said, it's your dreams, not our I wish to
stop talking and dream. Well, I wait, you wish what
I remember what your brother sent to you from the
way out there in space dying in rocket shift a
space shift that grew out of your dreams from I
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forgot it? Why, doctor Anderson, you must remember it. No,
it's like that little prayer that kids for at that time,
and then your brothers changed it around them. Any of
what he was talking about?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Do you remember.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Some things that remember? I remember I used to say
it when we were children at night. Finally, now I
lay me downward Street for if I should die before
I weigh.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
That isn't what your brother said dying out there in
the cold and the dark. I try to remember it
if I we do doc game.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Your brother said, if I could wait before I die,
it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Oh yet he does. Doctor.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
He was telling you to wake up before you die.
Wake up DOCTA before you die, and the world dies
with you.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
There is nothing I can do.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I submitted myself to this and I've gone too far.
The others fish off the beverage intel a plane. They
have gone too far to we cannot stop. It's no dream,
no dream at all. It is your science. But if
they have perverted our dreams, not to what if they
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have perverted our studies? Are our equations, our living thoughts,
the weapons of destructors.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
It was not up off. I was not my brother's deeper.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
But these guys are are after.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
A thangerable hole, a worthy cosmic Dutch brit Oo. Wow,
there is no The alchemists drive for thousands of years,
the transmute race metals in the precious ones. I only
carried out their fumbling.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Task, but you succeeded. You and the other side didn't
pollute the waters of virgineas.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
No use that in a snood aug the eight thousands
miles away, and the reports of the awful up evil
of the sea and for you, and you read them
and smiled, leaned back in your.
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Chair and smiled.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
They proved what we knew could be proved. You're dead,
your smile. It was not my fault.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You dreamed that distruction leaps from the floor of the sea,
and the waters were charged.
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With death, and you smiled in the dream.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
It was no dream. Your brother and two other men
took hands with you and stepped into the rocket shell.
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It was to be there, pool and back. Tool was
the reality of your dream now, and your dream.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Now of more wonders.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Upon me, upon this earth, that one day you.
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Will destroy you with your own hand. Oh, I still
dream grows brighter and breaker, until the whole.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Universe is plotted out and you stepped out the hands
for reality when there's only blot.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Wait, I tell you, then't I'm not talking over here
to the window.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
No, I want bring it.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I'm thank you. It's not going to listen to the quick.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Come on, it's the end, projects say time, What is it?
Fully here where you can see the whole ris, what
is it You're.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Going to reach a move.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Here?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
What's the radar part of monster doesn't want.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
To do any good?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah? What this is the project?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I heard about them? Where did you hear about it?
I've been trusted, you know that somebody's head for that?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
What what if it's just another raid is going to reach?
Except that the secret for so long? What he's going
to do? And what are you going to do? Going
to reach the move with the productive the comic vision productive?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
What?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Oh? Doc Randerson? No you do this?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I didn't see anybody.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
On the way. There's the times in the town to
reach what what two hundreds? What?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
What's the rays happens?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I'm supposed to see for the radar? I hope nearly
there now second or two dreams or.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Look time look.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Slay the line. There's not always accuracy to see the
results of a projected experiment.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, that's however, it's purpose experiments to prove or disprove
the theory or scientific conceptions. But there were possible to
conduct all one's experiments personally, the margin of error would
naturally be reduced to the minimum mus When a large
number of other individuals that are into the operations, error
and the possibility of error is naturally modified.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Protlems make another of this in much ratio. The probable
error is the.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Intreagues with the admission of new minds to a particular project,
and introduced the formula. At the moment, I do not
know exactly what go's wrong. It's within the realm of
possibility that I might have made.
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A slight miscalculation myself.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Although actually got about that. It's possible to prisonable material
reacts with greater celerity, but atmisphere as we know it
is lacking. It is possible, as there were on the Moon.
Certain elements are known to us element but do not
show up in such themestic analyses.
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Elements that's purely amenable to chain reaction of unprecedented violence.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Mildly shocking to realize the extent of the damage done
by projects Saton.
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However, I'm reminded of the theory.
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Of a philosopher birth They that one must vous everything
outside the circle of one's own consciousness. Certainly I have
the evidence of my own consciousness. The image of the
moon instantaneously disappeared on the radar screen as a precise
second when my calculations showed that the projective had reached
the Moon's surface. And although this is the time of
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the full moon, a free line twenty session has not
appeared in its customary place in the firmament. Therefore, I
am led to an ineluctible conclusion which is corroborated by.
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Over Hear'Say evidence. It is a fact, and I say
that positively, that the moon is and utterly destroyed as
a result of subject failure.
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Never again, the sweet moonlight of the lives never more.
The harvest moon rising above is in October night. But
science is indicated.
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Science has gone it.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Pure science went into the calculations, the great thinking machines
drowned and chattered, and the data towardo the data that
I alone knew was tough equations. No human mind for
the magic, beautiful pure mathematical thoughts are beyond it, far
beyond the inception of the ones who die. Calculations of
massive energy and the cosmic movements of all the planets,
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allowances for the gravitation of stars forty life years away,
collections of the rotation of the Earth, the absolute cold
of two hundred and forty thousand.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Miles of state pinpointed on the great treasure of copanics.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
That man has gazed on and pondered since the world began,
But no man can ever seen the hand of man
has reached out into space and found the target.
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Sure, pure thoughts, that's taught out.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
The farthest reaches of.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
The high five wept, and in every harbor of the
world the tides rushed out, and the very floor of
the sea.
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Was plain the human eyes. In one last.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Far up on the breast of the ocean, moons great
tidal waves with oversot and destroyed everything that floats.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Man has a last conquered fight, had thousands dead for
miles inlands from the shore. When the water returned and
the moon.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I did not know we would destroy the moon, I
said you.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I thought there would be a small explosion of the sea.
And man has destroyed what God hath rust. He was
dres west, doctor him and tie his brush.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
It was an experiment and well then well complete with
a trip.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
The fox telling.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
There will be no more war.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Though don't you understand that we have proved.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
The modern warriors, so the structors the donation.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Can afford the fights. That's no dream.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Yes, yes, you have proved that.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You have destroyed one world, and very pretty demonstrated it
was no world. It was a moon. A dead moon. Dead, yes, gone,
But perhaps it was a world, doctor Anderson. Not the
vegitation on the modion is lay.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Our proof is long ago, way back in nineteen forty.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Well why did it not have been people? It couldn't
be proved, It will never be proved. Now there's only
dust in our own world. And you think of what
has happened on our own world and look own man.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
No, I didn't intend that, but you're accomplished.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I know it. But you have other.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Experiments in mind assumed well, not immediately, of course, of.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Course they're not for years.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Of course we have to go on.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Do you you know the end of it?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Door can't stopped. Now we've started this thing and there's
no turning back, the point of no retain exactly. We
have accomplished the thing that human minds can never imagine.
You have dreamed, and you go on dreaming of destruction.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
All with Vachanic you will, of course we will. This
is it's an unfortunate activist. Ten people to this common
city is destroyed.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
It can never be re built.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
The very moons, the.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Age of satellite, if it is blown to dust.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Haven't you dreamed enough?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
It is matter you bring not we before decides before
we do?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
What can I do? You can stop it? Done it, captain,
It must be stopped. Men.
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Wasn't put on earth to die by his own hand,
to be murdered by his settle?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Men?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
But what can I do?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Stop? We can't stop. We've started a pain reaction among people.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
You know what chain reactions are? You know what follows?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You know that a simple fuse met by a tiny
match and set off an explosion that will destroy the world.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
There's nothing to be done by shops and that region,
tell a plane.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
And I've said, in all humanity, we know all there
is to know about these cosmic forces.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
We know more than any other four men.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
In the world. We do you for know how to
stop this this progress? I know, I think they know,
But you won't stop.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
How well if you four for degree with a signe
off the dance, there is no hope.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
We must go on to the structure. We must go on.
How do you know you must go on? I know?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
How do you know?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I haven't told by the other kids. They'll go on
if you give up, they will I know what if
they died? They are the direct brains of all the research.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
In their country. And they died.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
They're programmably set back so far they won't die.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
They have died.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
What did you say, I said, they have died? They did.
How do you know they died.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
When they died on a ship in the Atlantic Ocean,
When when everybody else died.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
On the Atlantic Ocean in the tighter way, you disposed
of them very neatly. Why didn't you kill them just
as you killed all those others? This my business. I
think that's right, Rucial that you have no rivals now,
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doctor Anderson, Why that's right.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
We're in front of the world.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Was left of it?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Nobody to carry on their work? Are you sure I know?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Now what were they coming here for? Why didn't say
they were coming here? They were, though I know they were.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
But what.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Why were they coming here, don't you know?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Doctor? To kill me? To murder me? Why? Of course
they knew me.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
They heard about Project Pasigns.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
They knew what they murdered me.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
That would stop all our developments here, and they would
ally themselves against us, and without the weapons that I
could divide, they would Why.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
They win the war?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
What war?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Doctor? Right?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
What? What?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Why they declared war on us?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
So they wouldn't declare WARNU they just why they just
diploy it overnight. No, No, they weren't coming here to
give you I know they were.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
No.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
They they were coming here to make a deal with you.
A deal.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Yes, they were afraid of fought of the thing.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
That killed them type of ways, but that they didn't
know what it was to free But they well.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Maybe they were afraid of it because they were afraid.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Of what you do next. They better be afraid. Oh
they're not anymore again. Oh, yes, that's right.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Well remember what your brothers did?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Is I remember? But what why they awoke before they died?
Doctor Rand? It didn't do them any goods?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
No, it didn't.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
You know, it certainly didn't because you didn't A wait,
I know you're the only one left. You know all
the secrets. You know more than any other man in
the whole world.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I do, don't.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I became your power now to go ahead and do
things that the others can't duplicate that.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
They can't even come near my patriotic good it did.
I've got you, my god.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
If I could tell you some of the things I've
already planned, some of the most amazing things.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
But I tell you your mind couldn't even begin to
comprehend what I can do.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I'm not worry about competition, and that's right, But there
may not be any place.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Left for you to do these one little thing that
can Why not?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Why there might not see any world left?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
But I can't just sit here, No, of God, I
can't stagnate.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Why I spent my whole life studying, running, thinking, and
studying you again, I've gone farther.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Into nuclear vision and then the other man in history.
I know more than even they do.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
See you mean that I should give this fall off
and just he's not at all that See, this is
gonna job show. It's one little, one, simple little operation.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
One Why this simple attorneyment wakes the wrong way? Yes,
it was neutralized every single atom of fasionable material in
the world today. Really, I mean it.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
It could neutralize every stockpile in the world, and it
would be one hundred years before anybody could.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Prepare even one little bob. Do you realize that?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
As are they one catching it? But you, if you
are still around you, as only you in all the
world could well, shall I say?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Unneutralized? That's right?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
And you want me to give it all up.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yes, I can't do it. Doctor. I've explained that to you.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
There's there's nobody enough to carry on but me, nobody
but you.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
That's right, Doctor Anderson. You want to die? What I
say that you want to die? Y? I've never particularly
thought about thy dom.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
You know that's not personally.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
That's right, it's curious. But you don't mind bringing death
to a great many other people?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Will you will your to our brother Edwards. I'm your
brother too, Sam, I'll die true with everybody else will die,
and you'll die by your hand if you don't give
it up. But I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Are still dreaming, Sam, and you are not dreaming. It
isn't too late to wake up, Sam. I'm not saying,
yes you are, Samny's time to wake up.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
I tell you of today's Client Please.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
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Speaker 1 (27:34):
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